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2008

May 5/9/08 Uganda: Police Probes Mubende Cult
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor: Britain can't become "God-free zone
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Utah, Ariz. Prosecutors Vow Not to Raid Polygamists
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Sex abuse would trump FLDS freedoms, advocacy group says
WorldWide Religious News
5/9/08 Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families
WorldWide Religious News
5/8/08 Islamic court says Muslim convert can return to Buddhism
WorldWide Religious News
5/8/08 Islamic Divorce Ruled Not Valid in Maryland
WorldWide Religious News
5/8/08 State faces new headache over immunizing sect children
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 China rebukes U.S.report on religion policy
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Indonesians rally in support of Islamic sect
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 German Scientology church drops court challenge; adds human rights declaration to bylaws
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 First Israeli - funded non - Orthodox synagogue dedicated
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Crackdown at the Canadian border urged
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Russian court bans Doomsday cult books
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Church leader arrested on sex charges in northeast N.M
WorldWide Religious News
5/6/08 Texas used seized FLDS records against polygamous sect
WorldWide Religious News
5/5/08 Pope discusses Islam relations with Anglican head
WorldWide Religious News
5/5/08 Turkish Alevis fight back against religion lessons
WorldWide Religious News
5/4/08 Russian doomsday sect leader returns to asylum
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 China accused of religious persecution
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 U.S. Commission Split on Iraq Religious Freedom
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Deadly blast strikes Yemen mosque
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Anti-Setu lobby invokes faith
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Once friendly cult becomes reclusive
WorldWide Religious News
5/2/08 Vatican: Pope's exclusion from 'most influential' list, is good
WorldWide Religious News
5/1/08 Federal court hears case of Muslim woman who says veil cost her claim
WorldWide Religious News
5/1/08 Irish prelates barred from Jerusalem's Western Wall
WorldWide Religious News
5/1/08 Fiancée secures royal succession by abandoning her Catholic faith
WorldWide Religious News
April 4/30/08 Activists: China persecuting Buddhist monks in Tibet
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 New Mexico police remove 4 children from church compound
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 Official: History of injuries found in polygamist sect kids
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 Ahmadiyah followers fear more sectarian attacks to follow
WorldWide Religious News
4/30/08 BBC in Christian 'censorship' row
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Critics Cost Muslim Educator Her Dream School
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Uighurs struggle in a world reshaped by Chinese influx
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Protesters burn Indonesian mosque
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Mungiki sect leader is shot dead
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Police act to stop clergy attacks
WorldWide Religious News
4/28/08 Army gives Madhu shrine back to diocese
WorldWide Religious News
4/26/08 Patriarch: Greek Orthodox Church recovering from crisis
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 North Korea: Report Details Targeting Of Christians
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Somali children freed from mosque
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Judge: Gideon Bibles don't belong in school
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Church Wins $3.7 Million in Bias Lawsuit
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/05 Jehovah transfusion deemed lawful
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/08 Islam and the West need to engage
WorldWide Religious News
4/25/08 Amish men convicted for having unpermitted outhouses
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 At Expense of All Others, Putin Picks a Church
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 RUSSIA: Visa changes leave religious communities in limbo
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 In Padang, Islamic law is now imposed on all
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 Opponents of Ten Commandments monument suing Fargo
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 Utah attorney: Polygamous sect parents denied constitutional rights
WorldWide Religious News
4/24/08 Polygamous women separated from kids; Texas appellate court set to hear appeal
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 KAZAKHSTAN: "Higher authorities" behind prosecutions of religious communities
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 Vatican ponders Paraguay case after bishop elected
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 ABKHAZIA: Only Georgian Orthodox priest expelled
WorldWide Religious News
4/23/08 Liberia: Mobs Burned Witch, Wizards' Homes
WorldWide Religious News
4/22/08 Russian Court Jails American Pastor
WorldWide Religious News
4/22/08 Polygamist sect kids leave shelter for foster care, for now
WorldWide Religious News
4/21/08 Afghan lawmakers push cultural bans of Taliban era
WorldWide Religious News
4/21/08 Paris city council names Dalai Lama 'honorary citizen'
WorldWide Religious News
4/20/08 Yu Zhou dies as China launches pre-Olympic purge of Falun Gong
WorldWide Religious News
4/20/08 Indonesians demand ban on sect
WorldWide Religious News
4/20/08 Bomb blast kills Sri Lanka priest
WorldWide Religious News
4/19/08 Dalai Lama speaks at U-M, urges religious tolerance
WorldWide Religious News
4/18/08 TURKMENISTAN: "It is our duty to check up on religious organisations
WorldWide Religious News
4/18/08 Texas polygamist sect is accused of indoctrinating girls
WorldWide Religious News
4/18/08 Muslims, Coptics to sign anti-hate pledge
WorldWide Religious News
4/17/08 Court Rules Against Coach's Right to Bow Head, Bend Knee During Team's Pre-Game Prayer
WorldWide Religious News
4/14/08 Muslims and Christians are not divided like before
WorldWide Religious News
4/14/08 Islamic World Calls for Boycott of Dutch Products to Protest Wilders’ Film
WorldWide Religious News
4/14/08 1,000 Dalit Christians to reconvert to Hinduism in TN
WorldWide Religious News
4/13/08 Nine Killed At Iranian Religious Center
WorldWide Religious News
4/12/08 Masked protesters rally against Scientology
WorldWide Religious News
4/12/08 Jewish remains dug up in Belarus
WorldWide Religious News
4/11/08 Muslims, Mormons build bond
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 Monks Disrupt Media Tour in China
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 BBC chief Mark Thompson warns of 'over-cautious' Islam coverage
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 Suburban Santeria priest appealing animal slaughter ban
WorldWide Religious News
4/10/08 Church of Norway gets more authority to name bishops and priests
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 UZBEKISTAN: Eight years' imprisonment for "illegal" religious activity?
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 Mgr Saldanha slams murder of Hindu, killed for alleged blasphemy
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 Ireland's Sunni-Shi'ite Divide
WorldWide Religious News
4/9/08 B.C. should prosecute polygamists, says former sect member
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 KAZAKHSTAN: Heavy sentences on Muslims "to discredit Islam and believers"?
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 China faces Muslim resentment in west
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 Tamil Tigers appeal over shrine
WorldWide Religious News
4/8/08 Don't charge polygamists until contitutional issue resolved: report
WorldWide Religious News
4/7/08 Two Tibetan monks commit suicide as police invades monasteries
WorldWide Religious News
4/7/08 US Evangelicals March Through Jerusalem
WorldWide Religious News
4/7/08 Turkish court queries acquittal of sect leader
WorldWide Religious News
4/6/08 Muslim Prisoners Win Right to Diet Equality
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Israeli tempers rise over bread
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Jews can't use chalets as synagogue, school
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Church: Ruling violates our rights
WorldWide Religious News
4/5/08 Parents Plead Not Guilty in Death
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Falun Gong Deaths Escalate as Olympics Approach
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Revered Sri Lankan statue removed
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Religious scholar dismisses Sharia proposal for non-Muslims
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 Fairfax judge rules in favor of breakaway congregations
WorldWide Religious News
4/4/08 New head of voodoo brings on the charm
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 Saudi Mufti denies inviting Israeli rabbis to religious dialogue
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 Protest in Muslim Province in China
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 U.S., Europeans: Islamic countries want to limit free speech at UN
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 BELARUS: Religious freedom petition rejected as pressure on Protestants continues
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 Muslim Official Visits Church, Temples
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/08 4,000 against war manoeuvres at the Shrine of our Lady of Madhu
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

India sends warning to Dalai Lama
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

U.S. Supreme Court takes a new 10 Commandments case
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

Student Sues Wisconsin School After Getting a Zero for Religious Drawing
WorldWide Religious News

4/1/08

'No more mosques' says Synod member
WorldWide Religious News

 

2007

April 4/3/07 "KAZAKHSTAN: Officially-inspired intolerance of religious freedom steps up"
WorldWide Religious News
4/3/07 "Tories drafted law on religious rights"
WorldWide Religious News
4/3/07 "Trouble brewing as radicals rise up in Serbia's Muslim-populated south"
WorldWide Religious News
4/2/07

Loss of New Freedoms in Vietnam
Freedom House

4/2/07 China House Church Leader Gets One Year "Harsh Labor" For Preaching To Communist Official
Worthy Ministries News
4/2/07 Pakistan: Christian Prisoners Win Back Jail 'Church'
Worthy Ministries News
March 3/30/07 "A Fundamental Element of the Common Good"
Zenit News Agency
3/29/07 TURKMENISTAN: Deportee faces criminal trial for "illegal" return
Forum 18 News Service
3/29/07 RUSSIA: Will Moscow Salvation Army's rights be restored?
Forum 18 News Service
3/29/07 DOJ's religious freedom seminars kick off in KC
One New Now
3/27/07 UZBEKISTAN: Pastor's verdict documents extensive state controls
Forum 18 News Service
3/26/07 'Super Agency' Threatens Russian Freedom
Freedom House
3/26/07 China's Lesson on Freedom of Religion
University of Chicago Law School - News
3/23/07 UZBEKISTAN: Pastor's re-education "impossible without isolation from society"
Forum 18 News Service
3/23/07 Protester Calling for Religious Freedom in Burma Released
Voice of America News
3/22/07 Religious freedom law on trial in Texas
One News Now
3/20/07 KAZAKHSTAN: Stalled Hare Krishna demolitions to take place "in five days"
Forum 18 News Service
3/20/07 KAZAKHSTAN: Hare Krishna demolition re-started – then halted by "person in a black Mercedes"
Forum 18 News Service
3/15/07 RUSSIA: "Absurd" property regulations extend to Catholics and Orthodox
Forum 18 News Service
3/3/07 No burqa ban in the Netherlands
Dutch News NL
3/2/07 "Federal Panels Order NIH to Reinstate Priest" WorldWide Religious News

3/2/07

"U.S. Falun Gong Case Against China To Proceed"                                          WorldWide Religious News

February 2/28/07  "Supreme Court takes up church-state case" WorldWide Religious News
2/28/07 "KAZAKHSTAN: The fight against terrorism and religious groups without registration" WorldWide Religious News
2/28/07 Iranian Baha'is face continuing discrimination in higher education
Baha'i World News Service

2/15/07

Russia & the CIS - Central Asia - Church/State WorldWide Religious News

2/14/07

"Parade Ban on Falun Gong OK, Judge Says"
WorldWide Religious News

2/8/07

Uzbekistan "Harshening Crackdown" On Religious Freedom And Media, groups say
Worthy Ministries News

2/1/07 "MACEDONIA: Will draft new religion law end discrimination?"                                 WorldWide Religious News
January 1/30/07

"Opt-out refusal 'bans church from public life'" WorldWide Religious News

1/26/07 "German Sunday Closing Law Applies to New Scientology Center"
WorldWide Religious News
1/26/07 "Religion today"                                WorldWide Religious News

1/22/07

"European churches revive drive for EU 'God clause'"                                             WorldWide Religious News

1/19/07 "Chinese officials denounce Falun Gong-backed Lunar New Year show"                    WorldWide Religious News
1/10/07 "Controversy in Macedonia over law on religious groups"
WorldWide Religious News
1/16/07 Religious Freedom Day, 2007
White House News
1/3/07

"ROMANIA: Controversial Law promulgated; legal challenges planned"
WorldWide Religious News

December 12/20/06 "UZBEKISTAN: Government attacks on Protestants, Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslims continue"                                          WorldWide Religious News
12/19/06 "UZBEKISTAN: Prime-time state TV incites intolerance of religious minorities and religious freedom"                                          WorldWide Religious News
12/16/06

Russia & the CIS - Central Asia - Church/State   WorldWide Religious News

12/15/06

"ROMANIA: Controversial Religion Law's passing violated parliamentary processes" WorldWide Religious News

12/12/06 "Romania eyes ridding schools of religious symbols"                                           WorldWide Religious News

12/10/06 Excommunicated cleric installs married men as Catholic priests in US ceremony"       WorldWide Religious News
November 11/30/06 "Muslim women protest outside Dutch parliament against burqa ban"            WorldWide Religious News
11/29/06

"SERBIA: Legal status to be denied to religious-based associations?"                         WorldWide Religious News

11/29/06 "Turkish president vetoes EU-sought religion law"                                                  WorldWide Religious News
11/28/06 "UZBEKISTAN: Despite official denials, religious freedom violations continue"
WorldWide Religious News
11/15/06 Death sentence for three Protestant leaders upheld
WorldWide Religious News

11/15/06

RUSSIA: How likely are missionary restrictions?
WorldWide Religious News

11/15/06

Abdullah warns against religious intolerance
WorldWide Religious News

11/9/06

Germany's high court orders reconsideration of ban on church leader Moon
WorldWide Religious News